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Zooming in on Merging Spiral Galaxies
Zoom in reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies — NGC
4568 and NGC 4567 — as they begin to clash and merge.These galaxies
are entangled by their mutual gravitational field and will
eventually combine to form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500
million years.Also visible in the image is the glowing remains of a
supernova that was detected in 2020.Credit:International Gemini
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